Planning and building regulation drawings in Fulham (SW6)

Closer to the river, Sands End tells a slightly different story. Artisan terraces around Hugon Road and Breer Street stand alongside the newer Imperial Wharf flats, so the work here splits between traditional house extensions and flat alterations governed as much by the freeholder as by the council. Whichever part of SW6 you're in, side-return depth, party-wall boundaries and the character of the surrounding streets tend to decide what a scheme can achieve before a single drawing is started. We work through those constraints against your actual address rather than assuming what applies borough-wide.

Planning in Fulham: what to know before you apply

Hammersmith & Fulham reviews basement proposals against its own basement policy, which means most below-ground schemes need a basement impact assessment before validation, not after. That matters across SW6 because deep single- and multi-storey basements are common on the borough's terraced plots, and the council checks structural and drainage impact on neighbours as closely as it checks the planning principle. Design control tightens further inside a conservation area, where rooflines, frontages and materials are all assessed against the existing street pattern rather than left to the applicant's preference. Some parts of the wider borough also carry an Article 4 direction removing permitted development rights for HMO conversions, and a further direction reaches into conservation areas to cover certain basement and frontage works that would otherwise need no application. None of this is uniform across SW6, so we check the designations on your specific plot before we draw anything, then design to what your address can actually support.

Applications are decided by London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham — its planning pages.